WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Friday the White House is preparing a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally objecting to the Democrats' impeachment inquiry without an official vote. It's expected to say the administration won't cooperate with the probe without that vote — but he also said he believes it will pass.Trump acknowledged that…
WASHINGTON: The impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump widened on Friday into a constitutional battle between the executive branch and Congress, as Democrats subpoenaed White House officials and the president signaled his administration would not cooperate.Trump said he would formally object to the impeachment investigation, even as he acknowledged that House Democrats “have the votes”…
ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday called on Turkey to “take responsibility” for a renewed wave of migrants to Greece, and for an EU-Turkish deal to be revised so Athens can speed up the return of rejected asylum-seekers.“Turkey must take responsibility” and “control the migrant flow in the Aegean Sea,” the conservative Greek…
NEW DELHI: Sabina Bibi and her three-year-old daughter queued for more than 12 hours without food just to get a spelling corrected in her ration card. The 33-year-old daily wage worker joined hundreds of men and women with similar concerns standing in line outside the government Block Development Office in Basudevpur, in the Murshidabad district of…
ISLAMABAD: Political representatives of the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan on Thursday called for an early resumption of the peace process that was abruptly called off by US President Donald Trump in September. The US president blocked the peace agreement and canceled his Camp David meeting with the Taliban after the insurgent group claimed responsibility for a…
Diplomat at center of Trump inquiry says he warned Ukraine Updated 22 min 16 sec ago AP October 04, 2019 05:45 WASHINGTON: The former special US envoy to Ukraine told lawmakers Thursday that he wasn’t personally involved in President Donald Trump’s effort to have that country’s leaders investigate Joe Biden’s family and said he warned…
LONDON : The National Day of Germany this year coincides with the upcoming 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Oct. 3 event also comes at another key moment in the nation’s post-Cold War history, with Angela Merkel’s long chancellorship now in its twilight phase after around a decade and a half…
MANILA: President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte will receive an honorary doctorate from one of Russia’s top universities, officials told Arab News on Wednesday — the day Duterte began his five-day visit to the country. The Moscow State Institute of International Relations University (MGIMO), which serves as a training ground for diplomats, is set to confer…
ISLAMABAD: A high-level delegation from the Afghan Taliban will hold talks on “important issues” with US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Pakistan, the insurgent group’s political spokesman said on Wednesday, though a US official denied Khalilzad’s visit to Islamabad was part of the formal peace process. The Taliban delegation, led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the…
MANILA: In another historic moment in the Philippines’ quest to bring lasting peace to Mindanao, the country’s top Muslim separatist leaders, who have been at odds for decades, on Monday shook hands and embraced each other. The warm exchange between Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chair Nur Misuari and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair…
MANILA: In another historic moment in the Philippines’ quest to bring lasting peace to Mindanao, the country’s top Muslim separatist leaders, who have been at odds for decades, on Monday shook hands and embraced each other. The warm exchange between Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chair Nur Misuari and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chair…
COLOMBO: As Sri Lanka gears up for its presidential elections on Nov. 16, prospective candidates were preparing to submit their nominations on Oct. 7, officials told Arab News on Tuesday. The incumbent, President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, hasn’t announced his decision to contest the polls yet. However,…
HAVANA: Cuba said on Monday the Trump administration denied its health minister a visa to attend a Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) meeting in Washington and accused the United States of repeatedly violating its obligations as the host of an international organization.The Cuban Embassy in Washington wrote an email on Monday to those who had been…
UNITED NATIONS: The United States said Monday nearly 128,000 people face arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and called for their release."This practice is unacceptable," US Ambassador Kelly Craft told the UN Security Council at its monthly meeting on the conflict in Syria."The Assad regime must release detainees and provide international monitors access to detention…
HAVANA: Cuba said on Monday the Trump administration denied its health minister a visa to attend a Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) meeting in Washington and accused the United States of repeatedly violating its obligations as the host of an international organization.The Cuban Embassy in Washington wrote an email on Monday to those who had been…
KABUL: Millions of people cast their votes in Afghan presidential elections on Saturday although the turnout indicates a drastic drop from the nearly 7 million who voted in 2014, officials told Arab News on Sunday. “We have counted ballots of 2,597 centers from total of 4,905,” Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi, a spokesman for the Independent Election Commission…
KABUL: Millions of people cast their votes in Afghan presidential elections on Saturday although the turnout indicates a drastic drop from the nearly 7 million who voted in 2014, officials told Arab News on Sunday. “We have counted ballots of 2,597 centers from total of 4,905,” Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi, a spokesman for the Independent Election Commission…
KUALA LUMPUR: The presence of Daesh in Malaysia remains small as the country continues to restrict the group’s recruitment drive and terror plots across the country and southeast Asia, officials told Arab News on Sunday. “There are pockets of them here and there, most of which are at the infant stage,” Abdul Hamid Bador, Malaysia’s inspector…
PARIS: Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at age 86.His son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux told The Associated Press that Chirac died Thursday “peacefully, among his loved ones.” He did not give a…
KABUL, Afghanistan: Millions of Afghans are expected to go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president, despite an upsurge of violence in the weeks since the collapse of a US-Taliban deal to end America’s longest war, and the Taliban warning voters to say away from the polls.President Donald Trump plunged Afghanistan into…
